Is your council ready for a zombie attack?

A worried member of the public has forced Leicester City Council to admit it is unprepared for a zombie invasion.

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"To you it might seem frivolous and a waste of time... but to different people it actually means something," said Ms Wyeth.

Having watched quite a few zombie films I should imagine all you need to do is run fast. I've never understood how a zombie, walking slowly, arms out-stretched always manages to catch up with the human - even when in a car

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Re: Is your council ready for a zombie attack?

Actually considering the US government itself has now started preparing and advising for just such an event (and we always follow in their shoes) I'm actually surprised that more people haven't become concerned about the speed of their councils reacting to this.I must put in an FOI request to my local.

Re: Is your council ready for a zombie attack?

I Guess most people out of work or living on a basic wage will be well annoyed when reading stuff like this.Program on TV the other day showing some kids in Scotland living in flats where the walls were damp and the plasterboard was hanging from the ceiling. Life expectancy for these kids is 10 years less than for those brought up in average family. So when these councils are squandering money (our money) they need to bear in mind what other useful things it could be used for.

Re: Is your council ready for a zombie attack?

And so last night on bbc.co.uk/iplayer I watched Goerge Ramaro's Day of the Dead, I also have a saved favourite on youtube about 'classified' and one part a senator says 'flesh eating......oh jeezuz....(long pause) classifed'!Oh to be working for the almighty!!

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There was quite a good bit on Radio 4 about this on Saturday (all be it inaccurate and badly reported, but hey it's a comedy show) They did make the point that the national newspapers send out hundreds of FOI requests every week, to every local authority in the country. Each authority is legally bound to respond, however trivial or unreasonable the request (even if the response is, "we're not going to tell you").Every authority employs officers whose sole job is to spend all day responding to FOI requests. That costs us, the tax payers, billions of pounds. They even get FOI requests on how many FOI requests they've had. Admittedly some are relatively sensible, and I wouldn't argue with the public's right to know, but the FOI Act is a lazy journalists' charter. They just sit in their armchairs firing off hundreds of emails to every authority in the country asking spurious questions in the hope that for every couple of hundred they send out, they may get one story that they can sell. And having found a bandwagon they then jump on it for all they're worth. (Take RIPA as a very badly reported example)